28. But not 7, 8, 9, 10 degrees, not for several months at a time.

You really need to start paying attention.

What I said, pretty clearly, is that this is the only year that I can recall, going back some time, in fact, that low temperatures have consistently been 7, 8, 9, 10+ degrees above the average for several months, or at least several(6+ in this case) weeks, on end. Even in 2011, this wasn't the case, with the exception of the heat wave that year.